Suffragette

In the 1920s women fought for equality. The 1920s brought the first wave of women organizing and advocating for full citizenship with equal rights. Suffragettes were women who campaigned for the right to vote. They participated…

which might seem odd since suffrage was just granted and women should want to use their new political power to expand their roles, yet the expansion of women’s rights does not happen again until the 1960s. So what caused this change from a strong suffragette to a delicate housewife? To understand the change, the suffrage movement, and some of its flaws, need to be discussed first. The Women’s Suffrage Movement/ First Wave Feminism: The first wave of feminism is considered to have started at the…

There are an innumerable amount of terms to describe the nature of democracy, and this paper will aim to bring forth yet another one. Each term has its own different definition attached to it, ranging from the original, participatory form that did not have any notion of a hierarchy, to the more modern liberal democracy that instead relies on this notion of a hierarchy. Democracy is the movement that never stands still; it sails on the ship that is progressiveness. Progress is what has allowed…

Acclaimed historian Margaret Macmillan once stated “We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.” Many literary pieces have carefully chosen which parts of history they want to emphasize and diminish to fit a specific agenda, altering the modern day understanding of the truth. The literary theory of New Historicism is based off this concept, and its goal is to understand the…

In the mid-19th century, a woman’s role in society suddenly began to gain traction. While the first wave of feminism, or the woman’s suffragette movement, remained more than a century away, women made small strides in respect to their social stratus. One example of this dynamic accumulates within Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel, Jane Eyre, which depicts the life of the titular character through a first-person narrative, showing the progression of a once abused orphan girl to independent woman,…

Kent’s novel is set in Iceland, 1829, while Schumacher’s film is set in Canton, Mississippi in 1987. These settings have a very obvious precedence for discrimination, historically and geographically. The suffragettes and women’s rights movements were not yet in motion in this setting, and this fact is reflected in that Agnes had no support network throughout her conviction and trial due to her unwillingness to be complacent, and her intelligence. Agnes was…

Feminism as an ideology is a difficult concept to define because it tends to shift and changes as conditions change and as more focus is placed on one approach or another, one objective or another, and one counter-attack or another. Despite the shifting, there is one idea that has provided a steady foundation for the various major and minor waves of feminism that have taken place through history. This is the idea that there should be greater equality between the genders in the home, at work, and…

Throughout the course, we have explored the multifaceted, constantly changing concept of gender (1). Culture, religion, politics and global relations affect the manor in which gender has been shaped. There are many different theories about the possible biological and physiological influence as well as theories that utilize only social and cultural basis. One of the most complicated aspects of understanding gender is the difference between sex and gender. The definition of sex (2), the result of…

Strength today is thought of having big biceps, six-pack abs and the ability to outmuscle anything when encountered with a problem. When the word strength comes up in conversation, people think that it means physical fitness. The definition of strength, however, goes far deeper than just the physical aspects. Strength is taking the time to study for the ACT and passing with an excellent score. Strength is willingly taking the blow for someone else’s mistake. Strength is holding back tears for…

First, we have Power distance which describes the degree to which people in a country accept that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally (Robbins, 79). When America’s business culture was first being formed it could be described in a very distinct way and that way would be described as high in power distance. The age of Robber Barons also saw an influx of new immigrants to America. These Immigrants were looking to escape the destitution of the old world and were…